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Prosecutors from the state Attorney General's Office called three witnesses Tuesday on the second day of the preliminary hearing for former Penn State president Graham Spanier, former athletic director Tim Curley and former senior vice president Gary Schultz. They were:

Lisa Powers: A former newspaper reporter and Spanier speechwriter, Powers has been Penn State's director of public information since 2007. She testified Spanier and other officials minimized the significance of an investigation into child-sex abuse allegations against retired defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky in the year prior to Sandusky's arrest in November 2011. After prosecutors charged Curley and Schultz, Spanier issued a statement offering them his "unconditional support," Powers testified. The original draft of that statement did not mention the victims or child abuse, she said.

Braden Cook: The special agent in the computer forensics unit of the state Attorney General's Office testified about collected digital evidence at Penn State, particularly volumes of email from desktop and laptop computers, tablets and smartphones belonging to people who may have communicated about Sandusky or the alleged cover-up. Penn State switched email systems in 2005, Cook said, forcing investigators to comb through archived files and tape backups to recover messages from the decade prior.

Grand jury testimony: Prosecutors read Spanier's April 2011 grand jury testimony into the preliminary hearing record. In the testimony, Spanier said he was not aware of a campus police investigation into a 1998 allegation against Sandusky and characterized his understanding of a 2001 sexual assault in a campus shower as "horsing around." Prosecutors reached an agreement with the defense to bypass reading Curley and Schultz's grand jury testimony, which was read into the record at a previous preliminary hearing in December 2001.

Anthony Sassano: The lead investigator, a regional director for the state Attorney General's Office, said he found no evidence anyone ever alerted police to the 2001 assault after former assistant football coach Mike McQueary reported it to head coach Joe Paterno as well as Curley and Schultz. At least three other boys were assaulted after the incident, one in the same shower room, Sassano said. He also testified about a law firm billing record that showed Schultz consulted an attorney two days after the incident. The subject of the conversation, according to the billing record: "reporting of suspected child abuse."

What's next?

Dauphin County Magisterial District Judge William C. Wenner ordered Spanier, Curley and Schultz to trial on all or some of the charges. No date has been set.

The charges

Spanier, Curley and Schultz are charged with perjury, endangering the welfare of children, obstruction of justice and three counts of conspiracy. If convicted on all counts, they each face a maximum 39 years in prison.

Online

Watch video recaps of the preliminary hearing at www.citizensvoice.com.

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